Comparing “Captivating” and Johns earlier book about men, “Wild at Heart,” how are the desires of men and women similar and different?
SE: Well, they are very similar, what a man desires and what a woman desires, and they fit together really well. JE: And yet, they’re distinctly masculine and distinctly feminine. In fact, in “Wild at Heart,” I said every man wants a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. And in “Captivating”- SE: -every woman wants to be romanced; every woman wants to play an irreplaceable role in a heroic adventure, not just to be useful but to be irreplaceable; and every woman longs to have a beauty that’s all her own to unveil, both an external beauty and an internal beauty as well. To be the beauty and to offer beauty. JE: There are a lot of other similarities too. Our hearts are both wounded and those wounds shape us into the men or women that we become. “Wild at Heart” says every man wants a beauty to rescue. And in “Captivating,” it says that little girls often play games about being rescued. Some feminists are against the idea of passive women who want to be rescued. Wh
